Fundamentals of Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment and/or Dementia
Audiologists play an important role as members of professional multi-disciplinary teams working to help people “age well.”
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Well-Hearing is Well-Being
The goal of this position statement is to propose a model of well-being that would be easy to use in clinical audiology practice and considers the domains of socio-emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being as core dimensions of well-being. While hearing loss and its associated communication challenges can indeed impact these core well-being dimensions, growing evidence shows that hearing rehabilitation can provide benefits in the same three domains.
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Research Shows Hearing Loss May Affect Patient and Doctor Communications
Doctors believe that communication with those under their care is important, but most studies of communication between physicians and older adults do not mention that hearing loss may affect this interaction. New findings come from a review published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, as well as an accompanying editorial by Dr Frank Lin of Johns Hopkins and Dr Heather Whitson of Duke.
